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Old 08-08-2020, 05:02 PM
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Trent3786
 
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Originally Posted by flyinfool1
The pro link trailing link gear look good, Do you know which gear you used? The Dreamworks website does not give enough info to pick one that will work.
I am in the process of making up some new experimental gear, Set 1 will still be 3/16 Music wire, but the coil size is increased from .300 ID to .400 ID to give more spring action, the set 2 is bent out of 7/32 music wire but has 2 turns to the spring coil at .400 ID. My gear always fail right at the welded on bushing. I don't know if the welding heat is annealing the wire right there or not. I can tell from the bender that the 7/32 is a lot stronger than the 3/16, math says it should be about 25% stronger.

Since the Robart gear is no longer available, is there another drop in gear that will work for the electric conversion?

I would like this to be as close to bolt in as possible, I hate to start cutting into the wing to change things.
I got the Xcalibur nose strut and nano main struts. From memory the only modification I had to make to the airframe was to notch out a small section for the knee on the main strutsand shift the main retracts ~10mm towards the wingtip, Otherwise they were a perfect fit.

https://www.dreamworksrc.com/pro-link-nano-main-struts
https://www.dreamworksrc.com/landing...bur-nose-strut





Last edited by Trent3786; 08-08-2020 at 05:12 PM.